Education and vaccine hesitancy: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic
利用英国1972年延长离校年龄的政策变化,采用模糊断点回归设计,发现多上一年学能降低新冠疫苗犹豫。
We estimate the influence of education on vaccine hesitancy focusing on the Covid-19 pandemic. To address the bias arising from the endogeneity of education, we leverage the variation introduced by an extension in school-leaving age that took place in the UK in 1972 and employ a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. We find evidence that an additional year of schooling decreases Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy.